Wim Leers

Wim Leers has diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Wim began their career in 2004 as the founder of DriverPacks.net and open-sourced the project in 2006. From 2007 to 2012, they worked as a Freelance Drupal Developer at Wimsical. In 2008, they joined Mollom as a Drupal Developer, where they developed a Drupal-based subscription/payment/accounting system. In 2011, Wim worked as a Software Engineer Intern on the Site Speed team at Facebook, where they analyzed Facebook's web performance data. Wim then joined Acquia in 2012 as a Senior Software Engineer in the Office of the CTO, where they worked full-time on Drupal core until 2016. From 2016 to 2020, they held the role of Principal Software Engineer in the Office of the CTO, and in 2020, they became a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Acquia. During their employment at Acquia, Wim played a leading role in the migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9, and also worked on architecting an upgrade path.

Wim Leers earned a Bachelor's degree with honors in Computer Science from UHasselt in 2009. Wim continued their education at UHasselt and obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Databases in 2012. Prior to attending UHasselt, Wim studied Latin-Math at both Virga-Jesse College from 2004 to 2006 and Ursula-Instituut from 2000 to 2004.